Altz UI

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IntroAltz UI is a minimalistic compilation with in-game configuration supported. I wanted to make a UI which gives people the feeling of hiding almost all UI elements, just like after pressing Alt+Z, and that is the origin of the name. It was fisrt released at November 11, 2011. The theme of AltzUI is simplicity. It only shows necessary elements when you want to see them. Also its memory useage and CPU footprint is very low, with only 2 ~ 3mb it is able to complete most of the functionality you need. Please read the all the tips in the tutorial appearing later, it gets you started in no time. If you have any errors or questions, please post it in the comments of the addon's page in wowinterface.com. Please help by spreading the word about this UI by recommending it to your guild members and friends. Thank you.

ver5.50 is a very important update. I almost rewrite the whole addon, so please follow steps below when update.
1 Backup and clean your Interface folder.

2 Search and delete AltzUIConfig.lua and AltzUIConfig.lua.bak in WTF. You may also delete any files which name include oUF, because the unit frame mod is built in AltzUI now that you won't need them any more.

3 Unpack the package you downloaded. I replace the font of the addon with a Chinese font, which is 13.4 MB(containing Chinese and English words), so the addon seems much bigger than before, but that won't affect the memory usage so don't worry. If the text in game are display correctly, you don't need change it, otherwise you should replace the font.ttf in Interface\AddOns\Aurora\media.

4 Lo-gin the game. The new tutorial will gets you start easily. After you complete that, put other addons into the addon folder.

Q
Why the size of ver5.50 is much bigger than before?A
I replace the font of the addon with a Chinese font, which is 13.4 MB. You may change it in Interface\AddOns\Aurora\media\font.ttf if you don't play zhCN client.

6.24
Earth Shield and Prayer of Mending show stacks by numbers in raid frames
Make watch frame movable
fix bug in auto-buy-items
actionbar icon turn red when out of range
make it more convenient to attach a macro to click-cast action
ALT+Click - Mill/Prospect/Disenchant/Unlock instantly

6.23
show main tank and main assistant icon on raid frames(optional)
raid frames for 10,20,30,40 man
holy power bug fixed
key-word-inviting bug fixed
/hb can bind middle-button on an action button now
update spellid for potions and flasks
add yellow icon border for quest item
add item-level on armor and weapon in bag and character frame

5.56
Do not show coordinates in decimal
No more accepting the resurrection when anyone in raid is in combat
+ Swing timer (GUI → UnitFrames → Swing timer)
+ the hover fade option of stance bar
Money button bug fixes
Improved 'Auto Quests'
BOSS name length increases
Thicker border for target and threat in raid frame
boss name display bug fixes in fight with two or more bosses.

5.55
fix shaman's spec bug
map coordinate will show when your mouse hover on minimap
fix a taint when some class entering new area
Add options for a independent player castbar
Add an option to show each tick in a channel spell.(eg. mind flay)

5.54a
fix many bugs.

5.54
Change number font
The elements in info bar are neater now. Info bar is movable now.
Use icons instead of text in micromenu. Micromenu is movable now.
Show world latency in infobar. Show both world and home latency in tooltip.
When you unlearn and learn spec, the layout will change now.
Change the texture of some buttons in GUI and Raidtool frame.
Fix potion report bug.
eclipse, runes, demonicfury, totem bar show it's duration/cooldown/value on it. (GUI→ Unitframes→ Others)
Add an option to change font size of health and power value fontsize on unitframes (GUI→ Unitframes→ Size)
Debuffs icon on pet frame is shown on top of it.
Change the default position of pet actionbar.
Fix a bug which causes many functional failure in Social and Other tab in GUI.

5.53
You can toggle equip sets menu by click Durability button on info bar.
Include addonmanager in AltzUI. You may delete the older file.
Add an option to change the grow direction of stance button on stance bar.
Change layout of the UI, rewrite micromenu and info bar.
Gold tooltip is attached to money button on bag frame now.
The color of watch frame is brighter now.
Option to change damage text icon size will also affect fontsize now.
Delete the option to change the color/alpha of unitframes. But you may find 3 themes at the Others option page in GUI.
GUI button is moved to game menu.

5.52a
Fix a cooldown text issue

5.52
add zhTW locales
tracking menu will show at the bottom of minimap when minimap is on the upper side
add an option to place the minimap button collect frame on top/bottom of the minimap
add an option to change the scale of tooltip
fix a bug that flask number is not correct
the fontsize of text of aura icon on unit frames depends on the icon size now.
add an option to change the size of cooldown text
add an option to place bar1/bar2 on bottom of main actionbar
show align when unlock frames now
Aurora won't the alpha of frame mover now

5.51
Try to fix pet model taint.
Try to fix talent taint
Delete damage meter button in the bottom left menu.
Can't Unlock frame in combat now.
Fix a bug that buttons at the bottom are not clickable.

5.50ver5.50 is a very important update. I almost rewrite the whole addon, so please follow steps below when update.
1 Backup and clean your Interface folder.

2 Search and delete AltzUIConfig.lua and AltzUIConfig.lua.bak in WTF. You may also delete any files which name include oUF, because the unit frame mod is built in AltzUI now that you won't need them any more.

3 Unpack the package you downloaded. I replace the font of the addon with a Chinese font, which is 13.4 MB(containing Chinese and English words), so the addon seems much bigger than before, but that won't affect the memory usage so don't worry. If the text in game are display correctly, you don't need change it, otherwise you should replace the font.ttf in Interface\AddOns\Aurora\media.

4 Lo-gin the game. The new tutorial will gets you start easily. After you complete that, put other addons into the addon folder.

5.41
bug fix : actionbar don't change in some vehicle
bug fix : the skin of DBM radar
change the way of indicate threat on nameplates, now the color of name is red when you gained threat
oUF_Mlight update
TOC update to 5.1
Aurora update
oUF update

5.39Search and Delete all oUF_Mlight.lua, oUF_Mlight.lua.bak, AltzUIConfig.lua and AltzUIConfig.lua.bak in you WTF file before update
oUF_Mlight update
add ouput combat text
watch frame can be moved now
a separated font for numbers in UI(AltzUI\media\number.TTF)
make stack number of items in bags/bank smaller
change backdrop of GeneralDockManagerOverflowButtonList
add number to the loot roll buttons
add aura to namepaltes
changed a few default settings
toc change

5.11
style flyout buttons.Actionbars will show when hover on flyout buttons.
mouse-over fader are now independent of event fader.You may choose to enable either or both.
micromenu is 80% sized of before.

5.1
Most of the code have been changed.
Please delete the old version before update!

Hey there,
Loving AltzUI! A couple of questions/requests:
I'd love to be able to have my stance bar fade out like the other action bars do. Is there any way to do this?
Also, it'd be great if the Friends and Guild bit show a count of how many folks were online.
Nice work!

Hey there,
Loving AltzUI! A couple of questions/requests:
I'd love to be able to have my stance bar fade out like the other action bars do. Is there any way to do this?
Also, it'd be great if the Friends and Guild bit show a count of how many folks were online.
Nice work!

Hi,
Thanks for the advice before on the stance bar fading. worked a treat. one last piece of advice, please:
Is there any way in Mlight to change the size of the party/raid role icon? They're pretty tiny (maybe it's just my eyesight) and i'd like to make them bigger. Because of their size it can be difficult to distinguish between tank and dps when healing.
CHeers!

Hi,
Thanks for the advice before on the stance bar fading. worked a treat. one last piece of advice, please:
Is there any way in Mlight to change the size of the party/raid role icon? They're pretty tiny (maybe it's just my eyesight) and i'd like to make them bigger. Because of their size it can be difficult to distinguish between tank and dps when healing.
CHeers!

E:\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\Aurora\media\font.ttf -- almost all the font in game
E:\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\AltzUI\media\number.ttf -- for numbers on aura icon or actionbar
E:\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\oUF_Mlight\media\font.ttf -- for text on unitframes

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E:\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\Aurora\media\font.ttf -- almost all the font in game
E:\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\AltzUI\media\number.ttf -- for numbers on aura icon or actionbar
E:\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\oUF_Mlight\media\font.ttf -- for text on unitframes

First, i must say a very stylish GUI! I like it very much but I have a huge problem.
It seems almost no settings I change get saved. When I open the configuration (click on the bottom bar), I can change settings but when I click OK or Apply and then open the settings again I see the default value again. Example that is not getting saved are the Click Cast settings (I can enable/disable it but whatever spell I configure it gets reset to default value).
Also every time I log in I need to click at the bottom to display the bars. Maybe this is intended but maybe it should only happen the first time you install the Altz UI.
Strange that some settings do get saved (I think from Aurora settings do get saved).
I have already checked and moved the WoW install folder if this is a write permission thing but the problem still exist.
Anyone knows what could be the problem? Is there any way to enable debugging to maybe see if there is some error that doesn't get to show?

Two more questions:
Certain elements of the UI are not movable (example is the cast bar or whatever is it called, the one in the middle of the screen) even if I enter the command "/altz unlock".
I have also tried "/rabs" and "/OMF" but for both those commands I get the unknown command error. How can I resolve this?

For example when trying to accept a quest but you have already too many quests I don't see the error "Your quest log is full" anywhere. The same when you try to pick up archaeology fragments but you already have the maximum (or close to maximum) amount. Is there a setting to display errors like that or maybe they are displayed somewhere behind something or off screen?